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I was thinking about posting this in Haus' football thread, but this is much much mucho off-topic... It's just a small anecdote I found particularly amusing (maybe because I don't know shit about football, being oblivious to something that might be pretty common). Anyway.
An important football match was going to take place in one of our capitals, can't remember which, and the supporters of the local team went to the front of the hotel where the players would sleep (around 9:00pm), and spent the whole night (up until 5:00 am) shooting fireworks, the loudest kind of, nonstop, in order to prevent the visiting team to get proper sleep.
Now, is this common? Are you familiar with other less-than-orthodox tactics that sports fanatics would employ to give that extra ooomph to their teams? And, without getting too Headshopey here, do you think this is valid, all in the spirit of the mindless, drunken fun which is responsible for many a dustbin being knocked over by hooligans in Shafsbree, or you still abide to the old Baron's saying that the spirit of the thing is in competing, not in winning? Or maybe valid in the sense of the team and its supportive community getting in touch and sort of "working together" to achieve the the common goal?
I observe this from a distance, can't say I really have a calcified opinion, but I find this sort of thing amusing in a Dick Dastardly way - but that's probably because the sport itself doesn't too much for me.
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